The OpenID Foundation (OIDF) was formed in June 2007 to help promote, protect and enable the OpenID technologies and community. This entails managing intellectual property, brand marks as well as fostering viral growth and global participation in the proliferation of OpenID. The OIDF does not dictate the technical direction of OpenID; instead it will help enable and protect whatever is created by the community.
Community Board Members
Nat SakimuraChairmanNomura Research Institute |
John BradleyTreasurerPing Identity |
Mike JonesSecretaryMicrosoft |
George FletcherCommunity RepresentativeAOL |
Corporate Board Members
Google – Adam DawesAdam has been a product manager at Google for over six years and currently manages the OAuth authentication and authorization infrastructure. He has worked in computer security for a decade, building email security, identity and policy controls at Postini and later for Google Apps. Previously, Adam led the product development at Autodaq (now Openlane), a B2B e-commerce site for the automotive industry. He holds an MBA from Stanford and a BA in visual arts from Harvard. |
Microsoft – Anthony NadalinAnthony is a partner architect at Microsoft working in the Government Engagement Team leading the Standards and Public Policy practice. Anthony spent 27 years with IBM where he was the Chief Security Architect responsible for the security strategy for software group products. Anthony participates in many standards organizations (OASIS, IEEE, W3C, ITU, ISO) aligning security strategy with standards. |
Oracle – Prateek MishraPrateek is Technical Director, SOET (Standards, Open-Source and Emerging Technologies) group at Oracle Corporation. The group works on challenging architectural issues in identity management and security with a focus on cloud services and the enterprise. His best known technical contribution is the conceptualization and creation of the SAML security standard. He proposed the use of security assertions to communicate security information in 2000 and organized the first interop demonstration at Catalyst 2002. During 2000-2007, he was an Editor, Contributor and Co-Chair of the OASIS SAML Technical Committee which created the SAML 1.0, SAML 1.1 and 2.0 specifications. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Utah. In a previous career, he conducted funded research in programming languages and distributed systems at Stony Brook University. |
Ping Identity – Pam DinglePam is a Senior Technical Architect at Ping Identity. Pam blogs at http://eternallyoptimistic.com and tweets at http://twitter.com/pamelarosiedee. In her spare time Pam sometimes writes PHP code for Joomla and Drupal sites at http://pamelaproject.com, or plays photographer in either San Francisco or Calgary. |
Symantec – Brian Berliner |
US Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the National Coordinator – Debbie Bucci |
Verizon – Bjorn HjelmBjorn Hjelm is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in Verizon Corporate Technology organization responsible for the evolution of Verizon’s communications network and involved in various Mobile Identity projects as well as several industry organization and initiative related to Mobile Identity. Besides Mobile Identity, he is leading efforts in the areas of LTE, IMS, and network evolution with focus on virtualization of network functionality. He has over 15 years of experience in the telecommunications industry with involvement in several industry standards development groups and leadership positions. He has been published in several industry publications and holds multiple patents in the areas of wireless communication, security, and identity management. Bjorn Hjelm holds a Master of Science degree in Telecommunication from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a Bachelor degree in Business Administration in the Engineering Route to Business program from University of Texas at Austin. |
VMware – Ashish JainAshish has over 20 years of experience in software and services industry with focus on identity and mobile management. He currently works as VP of Product Management with VMware’s End User Computing Business Unit where he leads product strategy, definition and delivery of virtual, SaaS and mobile applications for VMware’s Workspace ONE Platform. Prior to joining VMware, Ashish worked in a variety of technical and management roles at companies including PayPal, Symantec, Ping Identity and BEA Systems. Ashish is a published author and frequent speaker at identity industry events. He holds an engineering degree from BITS Pilani, India and MBA from University of Denver. |
Members of the community can monitor board discussions and communicate collectively with the board on the board mailing list.Board of AdvisorsExecutive Director OpenID Counsel
Eric SachsGoogle, Director of Product Management for Identity Eric Sachs currently leads the Identity team at Google. He has worked in the areas of user identity and security for hosted Web applications since 1992. Since joining Google in 2003, he has worked as a Product Manager for many services, including the Google Account login system, Google Apps for Your Domain, orkut.com social network, Google Health, & Google Security. Eric also led an effort to move Google’s internal systems to cloud-based technologies by leveraging the same developer tools that Google makes available publicly. Eric is now one of the key leaders for industry efforts to increase adoption of Internet Identity standards including OAuth and OpenID. Before Google, Eric was the co-founder of Interliant, which provided hosted corporate email services. While at Interliant, Eric led co-development projects with both IBM and Microsoft to build platforms for hosting consumer and enterprise Web applications. Eric graduated with a B.A. in computer science in 1993 from Rice University. |
Don ThibeauDon Thibeau is the Executive Director of the OpenID Foundation, a standards development organization. The foundation’s membership includes leaders from across industry sectors and governments that collaborate on the development, adoption and deployment of open identity standards. Don is also President and Chairman of the Open Identity Exchange (OIX), a non-profit, technology agnostic, global organization of leaders from the private and public sectors. OIX is a test bed for business, legal and governance best practices and policies and operates the OIXnet registry, an open, global registry of trusted identity systems. Don is Chairman of OIX UK and the Co-Chair of the OASIS Electronic Identity Credential Trust Elevation Methods (Trust Elevation) Technical Committee. Don blogs at donthibeau.com. |
Tom SmedinghoffPartner in the Privacy & Data Protection practice group in the Chicago office of Locke Lord LLP. His practice focuses on the developing field of information law and electronic business activities, with an emphasis on electronic transactions, identity management, data security, privacy, and corporate information governance issues. Mr. Smedinghoff has been actively involved in developing e-business, e-signature, data security, and information legal policy both in the U.S. and globally. He currently serves as chair of the Identity Management Legal Task Force of the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Business Law, and co-chair of its Cyber Security Committee. Previously, he was chair of the ABA Section of Science & Technology Law (1999-2000), chair of the ABA Electronic Commerce Division (1995-2003), and chair of the International Policy Committee (2008-2011). He is also a member of the U.S. Delegation to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), where he participates in the Working Group on Electronic Commerce and helped to negotiate the international e-commerce treaty titled the “United Nations Convention on the Use of Electronic Communications in International Contracts” and the UNCITRAL “Model Law on Electronic Signatures.” He was also the ABA Advisor to the Uniform Law Commission Committee to Implement the UN E-Commerce Convention (2008 – 2010), and served as an ABA Advisor to the Uniform Law Commission committee that drafted the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act. Mr. Smedinghoff is the author of the book titled INFORMATION SECURITY LAW: THE EMERGING STANDARD FOR CORPORATE COMPLIANCE, (IT Governance Publishing, 2008). He is also the editor and primary author of the e-commerce book titled ONLINE LAW: THE LEGAL GUIDE TO DOING BUSINESS ON THE INTERNET (Addison Wesley, 1996), as well as numerous articles on electronic transactions, identity, privacy, and data security law issues. |